Running Out of Time

If we knew we only had one day to live, that knowledge would likely affect the choices we made about how to spend that most valuable day. Wisdom would demand that we seek the Spirit of the Lord for advice about how to spend that day, and we would count it off in hours first, but soon in minutes.

Any day could actually be our last, though! If we knew that in advance, it would change our day. If we only found out after it was over that it was our last, what would that change? Would we be disappointed in our choices of activities that day?

Two ideas challenge me from these thoughts:

Why not live each day with the desperation we would have to get it right if we knew it was our last?

What difference should there be in the last day in contrast to the third from the last? Why shouldn’t every day have the same astonishing value: we are privileged with 24 hours of opportunities to serve the King of glory and to praise His name and bless His honor.

Today is the only day you have right now. Squeeze it. Squeeze every opportunity out of it. Leave it completely spent and used up like the last drop of fragrant ointment from the alabaster box that broke open one second after midnight last night, and apply the whole thing to Him as an offering of love.